The artistic conception of the poem is very delicate. According to the needs of expressing feelings, poets usually start from the order of listening to obituaries and attending funerals. The first chapter is a preface, describing the poet's great shock, grief and anxiety about the fate and future of the motherland after suddenly hearing the bad news of Premier Zhou's death. This is a group of poems soaked with sad tears and burning with the fire of struggle. The second and third chapters are the central parts of this long poem. The poet artistically reproduces the tragic scene of millions of people in the capital seeing off Premier Zhou's hearse in Shili Long Street. The people's prime minister was extremely tragic, and the whole people stood up and wept, which constituted a rare "people's funeral" in Chinese and foreign history. As the hearse drove westward, the poet imagined. From this great scene in front of us, we can remember and recall the immortal achievements of Premier Zhou's life. "In China, in Beijing,/a car has passed an eventful century." In the rich artistic imagination, it shows the brilliant life of this great man. In the poem, vivid and freehand brushwork is used, which not only has magnificent mourning scenes, but also vivid memories, and carefully outlines the glorious image of Premier Zhou. Chapter IV When people are fascinated by hearses, they will naturally think of Premier Zhou's last wish-to scatter ashes on the rivers and mountains of the motherland and connect a great man's life with the people of the motherland. He will always live in people's hearts and inspire people to March into capitalism forever. The fifth chapter is a powerful ending. The poet enthusiastically praised the victory of smashing the anti-party clique of the Gang of Four and further expressed his deep feelings for Premier Zhou.
This poem successfully adopts sad, hesitant and repetitive sentences. For example, in the second chapter, "The motorcade is like a river,/It flows slowly in the deep winter wind ..." appeared four times repeatedly; In the third chapter, "Ah, at the moment, the hearse,/is crossing a street ten miles long,/to the west, to the west ..." is repeated eight times, which not only effectively renders a specific emotional atmosphere, but also creates a tragic music melody with two typical scenes and becomes a touching and beautiful movement.
If the artistic style of Li Ying's poems was vigorous and meticulous in the early stage, it has recently turned to majestic and aesthetic. January Sorrow can be regarded as a masterpiece of this style. The poet organically combines vigorous character, heavy momentum with soft lyric and beautiful words. The whole poem has both "main venue-/9.6 million square kilometers of the motherland,/sub-venue-/five continents; /Between the clouds and the water, my eyes are full of shoulders,/In the storm, my ears are firm. " This magnificent scene description is supplemented by euphemistic and touching lyric and meticulous and touching scene description in the extraordinary momentum. The poet sent the hearse to the west with tears in his eyes, and developed a rich artistic imagination, combining the traditional repeated singing technique with the montage technique of the film. Through angle conversion and superposition of the same shot, he truly recorded the grand funeral held by millions of people in the capital for Premier Zhou, which was a wonderful chapter of combining rigidity with softness and coexistence of beauty.
In order to express overwhelming feelings and create a bold momentum, Mourning in January adopts the form of free verse. Long poems follow the specific requirements of "internal laws" and form certain internal rhythms and rhythms according to the ups and downs of the poet's feelings. The length of the poem is not limited, but it is very rhyming. The whole poem rhymes with the word "Li" written by Premier Zhou to the end, so as to express the poet's sadness and pain. Poets often express their feelings directly after describing typical scenes, or praise Premier Zhou's great achievements in his life affectionately, or directly pour out his deep memory. This organic combination of political theory, lyricism, militancy and artistry makes poetry a distinctive political lyric poem that appeared earlier in the new period.